Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.